The breadcrumbs we leave behind when using our mobile phones—who somebody calls,
for how long, and from where—contain unprecedented insights about us and our societies …

The privacy of individuals does not only depend on their own actions and data but may also
be affected by the privacy decisions and by the data shared by other individuals. This …

Google and Apple have jointly provided an API for exposure notification in order to
implement decentralized contract tracing apps using Bluetooth Low Energy, the so-called …

The global average treatment effect (GATE) is a primary quantity of interest in the study of
causal inference under network interference. With a correctly specified exposure model of …

Data and data science offer tremendous potential to address some of our most intractable
public problems (including the Covid-19 pandemic). At the same time, recent years have …

Proximity tracing apps have been proposed as an aide in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.
Some of those apps leverage attenuation of Bluetooth beacons from mobile devices to build …

Contact tracing has emerged as one of the main mitigation strategies to prevent the spread
of pandemics such as COVID-19. Recently, several efforts have been initiated to track …

This paper analyzes the trade-offs associated with the deployment of contact tracing
applications to support policy responses in a pandemic. In many jurisdictions, the …

How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and
opportunities—and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of …

Purpose Privacy has been understood as about one's own information, information that is
not one's own is not typically considered with regards to an individual's privacy. This paper …